2025 is coming. In addition to year-end bonuses, whether to get a salary increase next year is also one of the issues that office workers are concerned about. According to the latest survey by yes123 job search website, as many as 88.7% of Taiwanese companies revealed that they have raised salaries in 2024, which is slightly higher than the same period in 2023.
As for the opportunities for salary increases in 2025, 92.2% of employers have salary increase plans, slightly higher than the 90.9% in the same period in 2023, setting a new high in eight years. On the other hand, 7.8% of companies currently state that they have "no plans to raise wages."
Among the companies with salary increase plans, 62.6% still fall into the category of "increasing the salary of some employees based on performance", while the remaining 29.6% are "increasing salaries for all employees regardless of performance", which is a true "all-in-one" approach. "Form" adjustment.
The salary increase is expected to be 5.3% in 2025, with "Catering, Accommodation and Leisure Tourism" ranking first in willingness to increase salary
In terms of industries, among the industries with higher "wage increase willingness (proportion)" in 2025, "Catering, Accommodation and Leisure Travel" took the first place with 96.4%, followed by "Wholesale Retail and Trade" (95.8%), "Technology" Information Industry" (95%), as well as "Finance, Insurance and Accounting and Statistics Industry" (93.9%), "Transportation and Logistics Warehousing Industry" (92.9%).
yes123 job search website surveyed companies that have salary increase plans in 2025. The basis for considering salary increases includes: "Want to motivate employee performance" (66.8%), "Afraid of brain drain, reflecting the salary level of the industry (peers)" (53.6 %), "considering price levels and changes" (36.7%) and "simply reflecting the increase in basic wages" (35.3%).
Other reasons for salary increases include: "There is a surplus, so giving back to employees is a priority" (23.9%), "Reflecting the company's own revenue growth" (22.7%), and "Considering the national economic growth rate" (21.3%).
According to the survey results, the total expected salary increase in 2025 is 5.3% on average, which is higher than the 5% survey in the same period in 2023.
Prevent poaching! To prevent "important talents" from changing jobs, the company is willing to add another NT$ 5,546
In order to prevent talents from being poached, in addition to dividends, "salary adjustment" is also a common talent retention method. A survey by yes123 job search website found that companies with different job levels have different salary increase prices for retaining talents.
Yes123 job search website survey results show that in order to prevent "important talents" from changing jobs, companies are willing to increase salaries by an average of NT$ 5,546 for non-supervisory employees, and NT$ 9,420 for supervisory employees.
In addition, from a corporate perspective, the company also has priorities for different positions when adjusting salaries. Among them, "business and field staff" (61.2%) will be given the highest priority, and the rest are: "customer service or store staff" (40.4%), "general back-office administrative staff" (39.1%), and "production line operators" " (31.1%), "Production line and equipment engineer" (30%).
The next most likely candidates to consider salary increases are "R&D personnel and software technicians" (24%), "blue-collar technicians" (22.7%), "marketing planners" (31.1%), and "financial accounting personnel" (16.7%), "audio and video designers" (13%).
Source: yes123 job search website
